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I contemplate this reality:
A couple weeks ago outside was cold almost -30F. This last week over +40F. In this -+ 70F swing that happens nearly every late winter we have Flora and Fauna that survive and thrive. In Summer we’ll have +100F so for us the climate swings +- 130F every year.
That to me is why a couple degrees warmer doesn’t matter even if it is happening.
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That’s interesting Thanks.
Here it’s occasionally less or more than minus 3 Centigrade and plus 40. ^Rarely minus 7 or plus 44.
At 32 deg South.
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Here on the Devon coast anything below freezing is unusual and anything above 30C equally so. Which is not say greater extremes don’t happen but they are relatively rare.
We ae kept warm in winter by the near by ocean, still at 10C as winter ends and the frequent rain as a result of warm west westerly winds. See Mr Foster I did remember those geography lessons, there was no reason to throw that blackboard rubber at me was there?
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And in which parts of the world would it not be welcome? Warmer winters would be welcome everywhere, longer growing seasons, earlier spring and later autumn. As for the peak of summer in the middle of the day is the only time you might have a short lived problem, which is only relative to the cost of energy.
Dubai for example is in a desert with no water, no food, no people. Five million visitors living in a city which is fundamentally unlivable without massive power. And it’s a great life.
Or Murmansk with 350,000 people in Russia at 69 North? Ask them if there is a problem with a slightly hotter life?
As for the ice melting and everyone drowning, it melts every year across continents and no one drowns and the seas do not rise.
Melting sea ice does not matter. And Antarctica at 3500 metres tall and the size of South America is -50C in winter, -25C in summer and getting taller every year.
There is no problem. There never was a problem But the damage done by Al Gore with his Chicken Little story is probably around 100 Trillion $ spent trying to change CO2 and the end result is that you cannot change CO2 anyway. Here’s CO2 for the last 50 years.
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Initially the story was that the ice at the North Pole would vanish with warming. The reason is that the average temperature is an amazing 0C. It can actually reach 100F/38C! It was the proverbial canary in the cage for rapid global warming.
But after 37 years of vanishing, it has waxed and waned but is roughly what it was 37 years ago peaking at 14.2million km2 instead of 16million km2.
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Area of sea with at least 15% ice coverage gives no comparable indication of the actual amount of ice.
If you look at the DMI ice volume (if we can trust that it is accurate data?) Summer 2024 ended on a new low and it looks like the next melt season will start in a perilous state.
The volume data does look more like a gradual decline in the actual amount of sea ice over the full period.
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I used to trust the DMI until a few years ago when the sea ice extent came back to average. Suddenly the website went down for a few days and reemerged with a reduced amount of SIE (accompanied with some ridiculous explanation re the adjustment). At least some people were watching.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/12/10/sea-ice-data-tampering-at-dmi/
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Warmer winters are certainly not welcome in most ski resorts as they would shorten the season.
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It all seems quite highly variable year to year anyway. Good years and bad years, short seasons and long ones. Japan for the last month has been buried in snow across the country.
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As Oz is also committed to net zeroish the radical changes in lifestyle are coming your way
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/26/climate-change-committee-demands-government-impose-radical-lifestyle-changes-on-uk/
The UK has a legal obligation, passed on the nod in the Commons, to achieve net zero so there is an inevitably about what must happen to achieve it.
The public have no idea what is coming down the line just thinking about nice polar bears and the desirability for cheap clean green energy. They will get a shock
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This is an interesting one and builds on the increasing evidence that men and women think very differently and this is affecting who they vote for
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/26/why-are-boys-so-much-more-right-wing-than-girls/
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Backlash to the ‘Me-too’ movement and more girls than boys getting brainwashed at universities.
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I am sure we all witness colossal loss as politicians seem to have no regards to how they spend taxpayers money. This not only relates to climate change but transport and all sorts of pet projects. Seems we could all do with DOGE
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/billions-upon-billions-blown-by-our-incompetent-rulers/
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I can’t comment on the AU and UK politicians, but it appears to me that many USA national names are so far removed from personal money matters they haven’t a clue regarding the income/outgo numbers for an average family. Chuck Schumer has demonstrated his lack of domestic skills, Pelosi showed off her expensive freezers full of premium Jeni’s ice cream. They and others have health care and retirement benefits that put anyone else to shame. Poor Joe B. likely doesn’t even know the cost of an ice cream cone.
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The news that you have been waiting with bated breath to hear.
It’s a miracle !
Elanco to distribute “Bird Flu Vaccine” which “may ” prevent . . . . . blah blah etc.
https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article/2025/02/27/elanco-to-distribute-medgene-bird-flu-vaccine-for-cattle/?cid=DM1196803&bid=633308268
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Better get those Ozzie birds “vaccinated ” pronto eh?
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/trumps-bold-plan-mega-egg-import-reverse-bidens-bird-flu-blunder-tanked-nations-hen
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This could be interesting although it’s been known for a while. https://x.com/TonyClimate/status/1894549667544965282
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